European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - August 16, 1945, Darmstadt, Hesse                                The Ess and Ess August 1945 this following letter was received by Julie i i something tells me you Are going to be surprised to hear from but Here i am keeping my word to you that i would write to and let you know whats doing on this Side of the j if the town you come from is anything like new York City is take my advice and stay where you As far As i am con we can give the Damn is land Back to the indians and throw in the 24 Bucks we paid for i wish i was Back in Rome this very of course As a it would require Many pages to Tell you Why disgusted with this for one i had one hell of a time trying to get an ending up with a room in a and what is More i had to give the desk clerk a Damn big Schmere to get the darn the Cost of living is terribly High and so Are in every thing is away Over an average Fel lows and the government now has the organizations for you work take out Over 20 percent of your salary to cover the income tax if a fellow wants to save some Money for a Rainy Why he has to watch his step and not step out As much As he might like i i would give most anything Back in i know you wont take my but if you would listen to you would take your Sweet time in getting Back of All my old friends have been taking Good care of and i been seeing the town in All its but it is just a phoney i never saw such cheap Chisling going on As some of these Wise Guys Are getting away after a few place will revert to be More like it used to be old but until that Day does 1 would like to be As far away from it As i have put in a request to be sent Back Rome or to our Paris and dont think i wont be Happy to leave these i stopped at the office of the s and s in new York and saw George Willie Hogan and along with Ann Ash Tell Levinson she is darned Nice a girl for i guess she will marry him when he does for i kept big Mouth but what she sees in him is so Long to the wags right in the Middle of a Bunch of la place most was almost anything to Viola Irish Kean and Margaret Maggy Niles had their pictures taken for the last time the s s gang at the party rioting their departure Lor and 1 oni a Btl understand one of these nights i Are going to get icim the other i this letter Best to All lift in the lurch beating the elevator is a better game than Gin Rummy and much especially if you Are playing with fill in your favorite Demon elevators have always been an exhilarating aspect of the s and s scene the More times out of the More Exhilda at our erstwhile the pension sometimes the Only to get a lift was to stand at the Bottom of the stairs and watch the Landlady Niece come Down dragging her bicycle the blood stains on the elevator did not As rumours from the trapping together of Golding and lev Inson Between they belong to Gus who once was caught in a similar predicament while a Berlitz Pupil was Riding with the Pupil was female and in spite of Becks insisted she came for a language an interesting historical Paral Lel is that at the pension Nazionale the s and s personnel were instructed not to use the elevator going while at the Albergo Capi tale they were once instructed not to use it going to our knowl there has never been an 5 and s Rule against using the elevator to go but the committee is said to be working on out foxing elevator is a sport not confined to s and s our glamorous miss Alida Valli of the italian Cinema found the lift out of order a few nights ago and decided to but upon discovering the elevator in apparently Good shape at the fourth got in to ride the rest the Way of that someone below pushed the Button and miss Valli descended instead of upon arriving at her Point of miss Valli Dis covered the elevator would not go up she was forced to remake her forced March and arrived at the roof looking not so much like a movie Star As an extra who had just been interviewed by a it is not that Taubman planned the whole affair with an Eye to slimming miss Valli to american standards before As a United artists visitors likeliest candidate for the next orientation talk is whose subject will be a year or so in North in Case Nixon is held up to Andy Eric Anderson we Apeape on piloting a Jet